Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
The site, which consists of eight religious and secular complexes located within the historic walls of Padua, houses a series of frescoes created between 1302 and 1397 by different artists for different types of patrons and in different types of buildings. Despite this, these frescoes maintain a unity of style and content. They include Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel frescoes, which are considered to mark the beginning of a revolutionary development in the history of fresco painting, as well as frescoes by other different artists, namely Guariento di Arpo, Giusto de' Menabuoi, Altichiero da Zevio, Jacopo Avanzi and Jacopo da Verona. As a whole, these frescoes show how, over the course of a century, the art of fresco painting developed along new creative impulses and understandings of spatial representation.
![](/static/image/heritage_image/Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles/The first known Egyptian frescoe, Tomb 100, Hierakonpolis, Naqada II culture (c. 3500-3200 BCE).jpg)
![](/static/image/heritage_image/Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles/Etruscan fresco of Velia Velcha from the Tomb of Orcus, Tarquinia.jpg)
![](/static/image/heritage_image/Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles/The Fisherman, Minoan Bronze Age fresco from Akrotiri, on the Aegean island of Santorini (classicall.jpg)
![](/static/image/heritage_image/Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles/An ancient Roman fresco with a banquet scene from the Casa dei Casti Amanti, Pompeii.jpg)
![](/static/image/heritage_image/Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles/Etruscan fresco. Detail of two dancers from the Tomb of the Triclinium in the Necropolis of Monteroz.jpg)
![](/static/image/heritage_image/Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles/Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak frescoes, 4th century BC.jpg)
![](/static/image/heritage_image/Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles/Fresco of 'Sappho' from Pompeii, c. 50 CE.jpg)
![](/static/image/heritage_image/Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles/Chola Fresco of Dancing girls. Brihadisvara Temple c. 1100.png)
![](/static/image/heritage_image/Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles/The Creation of Adam, a fresco painting by Italian artist Michelangelo.jpg)
![](/static/image/heritage_image/Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles/Investiture of Zimri-Lim, Syria, fresco painted c. 1770 BCE.jpg)
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uses | 4071463-9 |
executive body | Frescos |
IPA transcription | 4723651 |
geoshape | Fresco |
office held by head of the organization | http://g.co/kg/m/02_3k |